CVE-2025-12981 (GCVE-0-2025-12981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-27 06:43 – Updated: 2026-02-27 18:47
VLAI?
Title
Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
The Listee theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to a broken validation check in the bundled listee-core plugin's user registration function that fails to properly sanitize the user_role parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as Administrator by manipulating the user_role parameter during registration.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
dreamstechnologies Listee Affected: * , ≤ 1.1.6 (semver)
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Credits
Ismail Syaleh
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